Beiyang 1917

1918年7月28ri8：25萨马拉联军司令部

"At present, the West Route Army of the Ukrainian Campaign is basically in place. The West Route Army will be based on Lieutenant General Fujii's [-]th Division as the main force, and the divisional armored regiment of the [-]th Division of the Chinese participating army Li Mingzhong will be attached to the [-]th Division. In addition, One division of Lieutenant General Slavin's Kursk Army is assigned to fight at the same time, and the other two divisions of the Kursk Army are the reserve of the West Route Army!"

"The former enemy commander-in-chief of the West Route Army is still Lieutenant General Fujii Yukizuki of the Seventh Division, the chief of staff is Colonel Ishihara Kanji, the deputy commander and deputy chief of staff is Lieutenant General Slavin, and the total strength of the West Route Army is also 6. There are more than 4 people on the front line. According to the campaign plan, the task of the West Route Army is to break through the Ukrainian border defense line. The first step is to take Glukhov first, and then go straight to Kiev, the most important city in Ukraine in the southwest!"

The progress of the Ukrainian campaign plan explained by Qian Tianfu at this moment is not much different from the Ukrainian campaign plan formulated at the military meeting of the senior coalition generals on July 7. This guy then pointed the red and blue pencils to the left side of the map and continued .

"Currently, since the West Route Army of the Southwest Front has the farthest distance to march and mobilize and assemble, the battle of the West Route Army will be launched at Relishsk, about 110 kilometers west of Kursk. Therefore, in terms of preparations, the West Route Army The army is slightly behind the Central Route Army and the East Route Army. Although the troops are already in place, ammunition and military supplies are still being hoarded. Your Excellency Utsunomiya's report said that it will take at least 2 days before the West Route Army can complete the battle preparations. [.”

"I heard that Utsunomiya has given priority to intercepting ammunition, fuel and other military supplies sent by the coalition logistics to the central army he brought with him? This guy is still eager to win!" Jiang Hongyu, chief of staff of the coalition army, said at the meeting. Aside.

"That's right, Fujii Yukizuchi actually brought the lawsuit to my coalition headquarters. Of course, he dared not say that the munitions originally dispatched to the West Route Army were intercepted by his boss, Utsunomiya Taro. The boy just yelled that Erlang Oba of the Central Route Army was not righteous, and Hata Shunroku even relied on his popularity in the coalition headquarters, saying that the supplies and materials received by the Central Route Army were more than twice as much as those of the West Route Army. There is no way to fight against the West Route Army!"

Wang Geng smiled and said, here Jiang Hongyu blushed when he heard the words. To be honest, since Hata Junliu had been Wang Geng’s chief staff officer in the war room before, and had been advising Wang Geng for so long, of course he was the same as Jiang Hongyu, including Jiang Hongyu. Many generals in the logistics of the coalition army are close friends. In the face of two old acquaintances, Utsunomiya Taro and Hata Toshiroku, Jiang Hongyu's logistics system is more or less, the train wagons and military trucks used for the logistics transportation of the Central Army The number of them is really much more than that of the West Route Army.

"Commander-in-chief, let me say that according to our Ukrainian campaign plan, the Central Route Army of the Southwest Front Army will take the lead in attacking, from Belgorod to Kharkov along the railway line, and give priority to ensuring the supply of arms and materials for the Central Route Army. In the past, besides His Excellency Utsunomiya, who personally sits in the middle army, Fujii Yukizuki’s west army can only pinch his nose to recognize it. Fortunately, the launch of the west army’s campaign was originally planned to be more than one day later than the middle army. I don’t think it’s a big problem. , the time has come!"

Qian Tianfu, director of the Operations Office of the Allied Forces Command, explained with a smile that Mr. Yu believed that the supply priority of Fujii Yukizuki's West Route Army was lower than that of the Central Route Army, and the launch of the campaign would be delayed by one to two days. The relationship between Yu Ziqian Tianfu and Junliu Junliu of the Central Route Army is also quite harmonious. As for Jiang Hongyu, he is also Qian Tianfu's direct boss in name. He Tian Junliu's strong recommendation in front of Wang Geng, so he intentionally or unintentionally rescued Jiang Hongyu in front of Wang Geng.

Wang Geng waved his hands indifferently and said, "It's nothing. Ten fingers are still long and short. It's unfair to be absolutely fair. Everything has a priority. Of course, the factions within the Japanese Army It's not a day or two, we don't need to mix it in, just give them food supplies and ammunition before the West Route Army's campaign starts.

By the way, tell Utsunomiya Taro that the dispatch of the West Route Army in the Ukrainian campaign can be two days later than originally planned. Try to avoid intimidating the enemy, and don't scare the enemy in Kiev from reinforcements to Kharkov! "

Qian Tianfu nodded, and Pepelyaev couldn't help but said, "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, if you want me to say that if we use the main force in the direction of the West Route Army and Kiev to win Kiev in one go, Dnieper The north bank of the Bohe River is at your fingertips, why must it start in Kharkov first?"

Wang Geng smiled when he heard the words, waved his hands and said, "This issue has actually been explained at the military meeting on July 7. Kiev is of course the largest strategic city in Ukraine, but our goal is not to win Ukraine in one go. The Volga Federation is currently feeding 21 million people, and the food supply is already quite tight. If we carry the burden of Ukraine’s 900 million people, we will be unable to do anything in the second half of 1500, and we will have to deal with so many hungry mouths!”

"The fact is true. Your Excellency Pepe, you are the Prime Minister of the Volga Federation. You can't just think that the bigger the territory of the Volga Federation, the better. The bigger the stalls, the heavier our burden, and we can really slow down self-sufficiency in terms of food. Maybe it will have to wait until next year, and the bigger the population, the better right now!" Jiang Hongyu, chief of staff and logistics commander of the coalition army, said aside.

Pepelyaev sighed when he heard the words. Of course, the problem of food is the biggest worry and confusion in his heart as the Federal Prime Minister. If you say that the lower Volga region of Tsaritsyn has always been the granary of Russia, and the Ukrainian The same is true on both sides of the Dnieper River. However, due to the destruction of the war and the smoke of the civil war, the farmers were displaced, and rural productivity suffered damage. The famine caused farmers in many places to eat up their seeds. <Wheat harvest season, but it is obvious that the grain production in Ukraine and the lower Volga region will further decrease. As for winter wheat, even if the entire Volga Federation has settled down at that time, it will be planted and harvested in April or May next year. However, once the food gap after the reduction of spring wheat production is too large, the Volga Federation will really have to continue to tighten its belt in the second half of 4.

"How is Utsunomiya Taro's East Army gathering going?" Wang Geng brought the topic back.